The Day
Once again it all looked a bit dodgy at 9 o’clock with the rain bucketing down. Right on cue however the clouds cleared, the wet stuff stopped and a record-breaking 52 Tee Setters were all away ahead of schedule on a fast draining course
The PJ starter had a great job of getting our 13 flights away from two tee boxes and earned himself two red bills as a reward for 4 hour or less rounds.
We have had something of a love-hate relationship with Pangkalan Jati over the years and numbers have been as low as 3 players but today the numbers peaked at that highest ever 52.
The reasons for PJ’s popularity are not too difficult to find, being easy on the wallet in all respects, close to home for most and a real challenge in the skill department requiring the deployment of every club in the bag.
After a relatively quiet few weeks we were pleased to see 4 Newcomers up for the challenge today in Donald Haywood, Glen Mayennett, Ralph Sasse and Rusty Witwer. We hoped you all enjoyed your first day with us guys, welcome to Tee Set!
Welcome backers were led by Rob Davies at 45 weeks, rashly attracted by the return of Shane – and Clyde Wickiser at 29 weeks.
Clyde, with his last project completed, now has more time to concentrate on his golf so we may be seeing him a little more often.
PJ is generally considered to have the cheapest and best selection of “previously cherished” balls of any Jakarta course. Might not be unrelated to all those military VIP types playing with brand new balls subsidized by the tax payer.
You won’t see Tom Alcedo’s name down in the results so we have to mention that despite escaping monetary penalties, his 5 shots to get out of a bunker has made an entry into our records 🙂
The play
The aspirations of Simon Reynolds to be a scratch golfer by the time he reaches age 31 is running short on time but nevertheless he still manages to take low gross each week though “only” with an 82 on this occasion.. Keep chipping away Simon because you have the best chance of anyone else in the group to be a scratch golfer.
The Grumpy Pirate gets his just rewards for once 🙂
Low Net B Grade and overall went to Paul Taylor with a 70, Graham McGeady took Low Net A Grade with a 72 while Jaco Zaayman took C division with a net 72.
Jaco must have one hell of a swing coach because he plays his handicap every week these days. Hard to beat such consistency but Brenda has been informed that handicapping needs some personal attention from time to time.
Matt Kaempf took 1st Par >= 30HC once the scorers worked out which tee box he started from (All are encouraged to read the instructions on the score card about filling out your card occasionally). Shane tried to share in the spoils but his loud protestations about having parred his second were quickly undermined by pulling out a scorecard that revealed it was actually his 3rd hole where he found a par.
The first rule of Tee Set is of course being able to stand unassisted on the first tee box, and has never been a real issue however the second rule about getting past the ladies tee box with each drive continues to be a challenge, with 9 players today falling short in their endeavours. Such occurrences might be stressful for the players but it always puts a smile on the treasurer’s face to see those blue notes coming into the Tee Set coffers.
The Newcomers provided welcome cover for a number of old hands by scooping the pool in Monster Putter with Ralph Sasse having to dip his hand in his pocket with a pretty impressive, best of the year, 48.
Happiness is ….. no fine!!
For reasons that were not clear at the time, and are even less so now, the 4 Tee Setters sharing Most Strokes on 11 were forgiven by our normally flinty hearted Treasurer. It would not be wise to rely on such largesse every week however – he was probably a little sated by his skirt takings 🙂
Fuller, player by player results from the day’s play can be found here.
2015 Matchplay
Last chance to join in Tee Set’s 2015 Matchplay Championship is today, anyone who has played at least twice this year but has not registered should already have received their personal invitation. If you want to join in but didn’t get the e-mail then let us know here.
1st round match ups will be published on Thursday and play can take place at any time after that. All participants will receive a briefing pack from Matchplay Organiser, Fernando Gaggino.
Rancamaya Stay & Play
Last year’s stay and play event at Lido Lakes was something of a success and we will be doing something similar this year at the glorious Rancamaya on the weekend of May 9/10.
With scant regard for personal inconvenience, two of your committee played there yesterday and indeed stayed on afterwards at the newly built and contiguous “R” Hotel where they got wined and dined by the management to add to their free round.
Such selflessness is of course the hallmark of our dedicated committee and was well rewarded as the suitability of the whole setup was to be deemed up to scratch for a weekend away for a bunch of Tee Setters, and their families, all hell-bent on fun.
rooms with a view …
The Rancamaya course itself needs no introduction to Tee Setters of course as it was voted #1 in our poll of courses earlier in the year; 18 holes of paradise, while the hotel is 4 star with excellent facilities and excellent bedrooms. Those facilities include 3 swimming pools, sauna, gym, massage, tennis, bicycles and a kids’ club with all sorts of activities to distract them. All in all a perfect setting for our annual thank you to partners and kids – while you yourself can get a couple of rounds in, on the Saturday afternoon and Sunday starting late morning.
For those who can’t make it for the play on the Saturday afternoon – and the mother of all BBQ parties in the evening, then no problem, just turn up as usual for play on the Sunday morning at around the usual time.
Not one to miss, not least because, rumour has it, that Tee Set will be using its funds (ie your funds) to significantly subsidise the rates for this very special event 🙂
More details in a week or so when the newly appointed organiser of the weekend, Jan Janda, has gotten his feet under the table.
Next up
Kedaton, so much easier to get to these days with the completion of the Western JORR is our destination next Sunday where we will have an 11am start from 2 tees.
A very attractive course with lots of water and excellent greens, it is also one of the small and diminishing number of courses where walking is possible so don’t miss your chance to “fight the flab” when green fees etc are a reasonable 650,000 – or a less reasonable 790,000 with shared cart.
Sign up here as usual for what is always a fine day out in the east and about as far away from the southern rain centre as you can get.
See ya at Kedaton!! …. Tee Set
And its good night from them after a busy day …
Rick Zanker led the Welcome Backs with a rather low 12 weeks though special mention has to be made of Tee Set regular Neil Mullins who returned from a short, self-imposed exile, with a half set of clubs and a somewhat restored, but still fragile, karma. Neil was heading for a remarkable first round back until some wayward driving and chunky chipping late on threatened further depletion of the contents of his bag.
It is received wisdom that Permata Sentul has the cutest caddies to be found on Jakarta area courses and there was little evidence to contradict this today as they displayed their virtues (eg green reading skills) in their pink uniforms across the course,
Chris Smith was also totally up on his luck winning Low Net B on a countback from Norman, first birdie (which he sacrificed to the Singing President) and the envy of his playing partners as you can see in the photo.
Tee Set 
